If this stuff is for real, it's really impressive. (Link from Aleks's twitter.)
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I learned about this from Aleks's Twitter feed.
It's got a slider bar at the bottom that lets you move continuously from the scale of a coffee bean to the scale of a carbon atom. Beyond its inherent coolness, this display answers a question I asked last year:
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source: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html
Gorgeous...
Yeah, my first thought was: How could they make these look so much like real broccoli, cauliflower, etc? Then I realized that, if broccoli and cauliflower can do it, an algorithm should be able to do so also!